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elf-man en · NOUN

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1. An adult male elf.
   • The wick and elf-men were, from the very character of their country, Wikingers, a hardy and stubborn race, who lived by the sea, and bore no good reputation. 1845, Eric Gustave Geijer, The History of the Swedes, London: Whittaker and Co., page 17, column 2:
   • Here the woman learned that the Elf-wife could not be delivered without the aid of a Christian woman, she being herself a Christian, but had been carried off by the Elf-man. 1851, Benjamin Thorpe, Northern Mythology, volume II, London: Edward Lumley, page 128:
   • In the midst of the way that old elf-man stood again in his sight, and said, “Salaam aleyk! - Sawest thou my son, and hast thou brought me aught from him?” 1888, Charles M. Doughty, Travel in Arabia Deserta, volume II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 192:

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